Lee Zeldin

Lee Zeldin (30 January 1980-) was a congressman in the US House of Representatives from New York's 1st district from 3 January 2015, succeeding Tim Bishop.

Biography
Lee Zeldin was born in Shirley, New York on 30 January 1980, and he gained a Bachelor of the Arts degree at the University at Albany, SUNY and a juris doctor of the Albany Law School in 2003. Zeldin received an ROTC commission while in school and served with the US 82nd Airborne Division in the Iraq War with the rank of Major, leaving for the reserves in 2007. In 2011 he beat Brian X. Foley to join the New York Senate, representing the 3rd district, and he was in office until 2014, when Thomas D. Croci succeeded him. In 2015, he became a congressman, representing the 1st congressional district in eastern Long Island.